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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."

It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/[/quote]

That's not remotely similar. Freedom of religion has always been held, by government, to be freedom from any compulsion to religion. It is not a prohibition on providing optional religious services to those who desire it, nor is it a requirement to provide any non-religiois service.

Atheist chaplains are welcome in the military but they need a religious endorsement from some religious training in order to be hired as a religious services provider.

The distinction between religion and philosophy, while intellectually specious, has nonetheless never been legally banned.

And any philosophy is protected as a religion as long as it williing to say "I am a religion". Unitarian Universalism and Buddhism are approved, as long as chaplains came to be spiritual.

If your spiritual philosophy is simply the philosophy of non spirituality, then that's your right, but you don't need a chaplain and the chaplain corps doesn't need you, so there's no reason for a atheist soldier to ask for a chaplain or for an atheist to apply for a job they are not trained for and don't want to perform. If you want to be a therapist or social worker, apply for that role, and push for the military to hire more of those, for everyone regardless of religion or non. [/quote]

Atheism is a belief system like any other. If you believe in a Sky Fairy and that gets you a  Sky Fairy advisor to bring you comfort, believing that there is no Sky Fairy should entitle you to a similar support. [/quote]

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